bedranol beta blocker?

Question

would appreciate feedback from users.i have just been prescribed the medication for extreeme anxiety.80mg per tablet.

Answer 1

Propranolol is used to treat anxiety at times, particularly stage fright, and has recently been found to show potential in preventing the development of PTSD in people exposed to trauma. It decreases the physiologic hyperarousal associated with anxiety and hence the source of its effectiveness. There is an excellent 60 Minutes segment on it on their website about the recent findings in regard to trauma and how it may prevent the memory from being stored as a trauma memory by decreasing the arousal associated with it. It seems that it blocks epinephrine, one of the hormones released under stressed, which is implicated as one of the mechanisms responsible for why trauma memories seem to be stored with all their original intensity (fear). When epinephrine is blocked, the memory is retained of the event, but not with all the attendant anxiety and hyperarousal.

Answer 2

Bedranol or propranolol is used primarily for heart patients and high blood pressure. Much more information than can be given here is to be found by just typing in "propranolol" or "Bedranol/beta blocker" into Yahoo! search. A number of links comes up giving a wealth of information on the use of this drug.

What seems to be consistent in all of them is the warning to not take potassium supplements or eat fruit (bananas).